All Health Service Journal articles in 25 October 2012 – Page 4
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CommentReaders' letters – 25 October 2012
Bexley Council responds to our claim that social care in the borough is ‘failing’; and how a service has made it easier for patients to get repeat prescriptions
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Comment‘The Health Act is a car crash and that’s a shame’
‘Red Tory’ Phillip Blond, the thinker behind the Big Society, talks about how to put it right
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CommentAli Parsa on the big society
Why sell the Big Society when there’s a big crash to deal with?
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CommentThe board's first challenges
The commissioning board face difficult times ahead with the weight of expectation heavy
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NewsProductivity is low at urgent care centres
Urgent care centres appear to have low productivity rates and lack clear data allowing commissioners to tell whether they are value for money, according to a report published today.
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HSJ PartnersSafeguarding in the future NHS – what CCGs need to know
An overview of what CCGs will need to demonstrate with regard to safeguarding children
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NewsHealthwatch chief sets out plans
Healthwatch England will not be a “megaphone” for local interest groups, the body’s chair has told HSJ in her first interview since taking up the post.
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CommentWhistle while you work - if you dare
Whisteblowing is publicly encouraged but privately still a dangerous business
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CommentA fair deal for older people
One of the clearest signs of medical and social progress in the post-NHS era is the leap in life expectancy
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HSJ KnowledgeEasing winter pressures
Consultant-delivered multidisciplinary team working is providing a host of positive outcomes
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CommentYour Humble Servant: heroic failure
“We both know that the only way Monitor will pass us is if we treat a lot fewer patients, with even fewer staff and minimal kit”
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HSJ KnowledgeGlobalisation to herald long-term power shift
Looking ahead to 2030 and the factors likely to influence future leaders
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HSJ KnowledgeAn injection of sense
Proposals to change the EU clinical trials directive could benefit NHS involvement in clinical research
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CommentNick Partridge on volunteers
We relied on unpaid volunteers to comfort those coping with what was then a terminal illness
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HSJ KnowledgeTrusts share in transformation
Swapping good practice is helping seven trusts to deliver cost and quality efficiency savings
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HSJ KnowledgePeople Powered Health
People Powered Health has the potential to greatly improve our healthcare service
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HSJ Local
North Cumbria launches recruitment drive after agency costs spike
WORKFORCE: North Cumbria University Hospitals Trust has launched a recruitment drive after seeing its bill for agency staff go up by 57 per cent in the first half of 2012-13 compared with the same period last year.
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HSJ LocalSHA halts hospital takeover
NHS London has halted the takeover of a district general hospital by a foundation trust in a neighbouring strategic health authority.
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NewsCCG veto kills off trust's FT application
The chief executive of a community services trust has spoken of his “bitter disappointment” after a clinical commissioning group vetoed his organisation’s foundation trust bid.
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HSJ Local
Mental health trust joins with university to launch masters
Dudley and Walsall Mental Health Partnership Trust has joined with the University of Wolverhampton to launch a masters degree in primary mental health care.